NC officials debate definition of 'commercial fisherman'
Story Date: 1/9/2018

 

Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 1/8/18


North Carolina officials are trying to figure how to describe commercial fishermen because of numbers that show that most people who buy licenses don’t sell their catch to dealers.Sam Corbett, the chairman of the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission told The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia, that the evidence is in the numbers. In 2017, nearly 3,000 licensed fishermen sold seafood to dealers totaling nearly 60 million pounds worth $94 million. B

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